Fidessa group, a provider of trading systems, market data and connectivity to both buy-sides and sell-sides, has launched global market coverage for its fragmentation analysis tools, the Fidessa Fragmentation Index and Fragulator. These free to use web-based services were first
While trade capture and confirmations/affirmations still constitute over 50% of OTC post-trade processing costs, the buy side desires technology wh
With the rise in the popularity and value of cryptocurrencies around the world in recent years, G4S has developed an innovative new service offering high-security offline storage that helps to protect assets from criminals and hackers. Once a niche dream
A New York federal court has ordered New York trading firm Gelfman Blueprint and its Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Gelfman to pay over USD2.5 million in civil monetary penalties and restitution in what is the first anti-fraud enforcement action involving
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of multilateral compression and optimisation services for Financial Markets, has successfully completed its initial NDF Margin Optimisation cycles with CME Group. CME Group’s latest cycle generated over USD1.2 billion in NDF clearing across multiple currency
Fund administrators have, over the last decade, focused a lot of attention and marketing dollars to persuade clients to buy customised, premium value-add services, in a bid to stand out from the crowd. To some extent, this has been a
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released its latest Data Services product, DTCC Equity Kinetics, providing institutional investors with a comprehensive depth of market view of activity across all US equity trading venues. DTCC says the data is
In July EUR94.9bn was traded on Xetra and on the floor at Börse Frankfurt – an increase of five per cent year-on-year. Of this, EUR89.3bn was traded on Xetra, an increase of six per cent year-on-year and EUR5.7bn was traded
The CBOE Futures Exchange plans to introduce trading in its first options on a futures contract – Weekly options on VIX futures – on 28 September, subject to regulatory approval. All key pieces of the VIX product suite will now
Eurex is planning to launch a completely new trading system. Subject to the required legal approvals, first roll-out is currently scheduled for December 2012, followed by a migration phase, where products will be moved in a stepwise approach from the
